Re: Last Call <draft-sprecher-mpls-tp-oam-considerations-01.txt> (The Reasons for Selecting a Single Solution for MPLS-TP OAM) to Informational RFC

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I support this doc, and concur with Stewart's comments.

Contrary to what some have suggested, we sometimes (ofttimes?) have more than
one standard for no good technical reason. Sometimes very large, competing companies back different standards for parochial reasons, to the detriment of consumers, service providers, etc. This appears to be one of those cases. Moreover, not opposing a two-standard approach sends a bad message, and encourages similar, bad behavior in the future.

As the co-chair of PKIX, which has two standards for cert management (CMC and CMP), for exactly the bad reasons I cite above, I am intimately familiar with this sort of problem. I failed, in my role as PKIX co-chair, to prevent this in that WG. Let's not repeat that sort of mistake here.

Steve
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